JMVRI Issue No. 15 is the third of three Special Issues which serialise a new book by Dr Geoffrey Wells, with contributions by Dr Lee Fergusson and Dr Anna Bonshek, titled “Fullness of Life: The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence”. Issues No. 12 and No. 14 contained the first two installments of the Introduction and six chapters of the book. This Special Issue contains the following three final instalments of the book: Chapter Seven: The Seventh State of Consciousness, Unity Consciousness (pp. 13-47); Chapter Eight: Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence as a Science (pp. 49-77); and Chapter Nine: The Scientific Research Program of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence (pp. 79-133).
JMVRI Issue Number 15
JMVRI Paper 15.2
The Foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence
Chapter Eight: Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence as a Science
Author: Geoffrey A. Wells, with Lee Fergusson and Anna Bonshek
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Citation: Wells, G. A., with Fergusson, L., & Bonshek, A. (2020). The foundations of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence—Chapter eight: Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence as a science. Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute, 15, 49-77.
Summary (excerpt):
Maharishi has always presented his teaching as a science. Our approach to it has therefore been framed from the outset in scientific terms. In Chapter One we noted that all the descriptions Maharishi gives of the field of pure intelligence are validated and made meaningful by direct experience through his Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program. It is just the possibility of this experience, we concluded, that makes Maharishi’s teaching scientific; which is, in effect, to demonstrate the scientific character of the Vedic wisdom as a whole.